HELIUM-10000 Is a $10,000 Gas-Filled Jacket That Floats Like a Balloon
It may look like many other puffy jackets available, but this $10,000 piece has a secret feature: it floats like a balloon.
When designers refer to “blue skies”, it’s usually made in reference to no-limits brainstorming sessions, the purely creative exercise of investigating “what if"”. Designer Andrew Kostman’s HELIUM-10000 helium jacket is a blue sky idea that is coming to life, fashion imagined to literally float above its owner’s head like a balloon.
Details are currently scant, with the HELIUM-10000 simply described as the “first inflatable helium jacket designed in Italy and made in Japan”. Aside from one particularly iridescent colorway, the jacket looks similar to a multitude of puffy outerwear already available…except “puffier”. But while the HELIUM-10000 is intended to be worn normally like any jacket, it’s also outfitted to be filled with the element of its namesake, inflating and floating like a stringed party balloon when removed (we’d admit a level of disappointment discovering the jacket doesn’t allow its wearer to float like a balloon with the HELIUM-10000 jacket on).
Kostman’s buoyant outerwear is made of of a “top secret” material, which imparts the jacket with tensile strength while remaining lightweight enough to float. Paired with a helium cylinder, the jacket can be filled with the lighter than air gas to turn clothing into a...
When designers refer to “blue skies”, it’s usually made in reference to no-limits brainstorming sessions, the purely creative exercise of investigating “what if"”. Designer Andrew Kostman’s HELIUM-10000 helium jacket is a blue sky idea that is coming to life, fashion imagined to literally float above its owner’s head like a balloon.
Details are currently scant, with the HELIUM-10000 simply described as the “first inflatable helium jacket designed in Italy and made in Japan”. Aside from one particularly iridescent colorway, the jacket looks similar to a multitude of puffy outerwear already available…except “puffier”. But while the HELIUM-10000 is intended to be worn normally like any jacket, it’s also outfitted to be filled with the element of its namesake, inflating and floating like a stringed party balloon when removed (we’d admit a level of disappointment discovering the jacket doesn’t allow its wearer to float like a balloon with the HELIUM-10000 jacket on).
Kostman’s buoyant outerwear is made of of a “top secret” material, which imparts the jacket with tensile strength while remaining lightweight enough to float. Paired with a helium cylinder, the jacket can be filled with the lighter than air gas to turn clothing into a...
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